Mystery in White : A Christmas Crime Story (Paperback)

from souloftherose

A recent reprint under the British Library Crime Classics imprint, this 1937 mystery is set during an unprecedented snowfall at Christmas (despite what films would have you believe, it never snows at Christmas in the UK). A group of travellers get stuck on a snow-bound train and decide to attempt...

from smik

Subtitled A Christmas Crime Story, this novel is a variant on a classic mystery plot. Passengers on a train held up by snow drifts on an English countryside railway struggle through the the snow storm to a large country house which they find deserted yet visitors are obviously expected: the table...

from reading_fox

Entertaining enough but nothing special. A Poirot style feel to it, but set in the English countryside - unspecified - between the wars, as social change was just spreading through the nation. A train becomes snowbound and one carriage full of passengers elect to depart (de-train) to a nearby sta...

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The Dec 24th, 1937 11:37 train from Euston Station in London gets stuck in a blizzard. It is soon trapped in the snow, unable to go either forward or backward. A group of stranded passengers leaves the train in search of shelter. After a difficult trek through the storm they come upon a house, al...

from antiquary

This story has apparently been one of the most popular in the British Library Classic Crime reprint series. On the whole, I think it deserves to be. It begins with a party of travelers stranded in a train by snow. One compartment full decide to leave the train and find their way to a country hous...